PTI, NEW DELHI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today met NCP chief Sharad Pawar and leaders of some regional parties as well as NDA ally Shiv Sena to explore a “federal front” option to take on the BJP in the next LD polls, mooting a “one-to-one” fight in all the states.
According to a senior NCP leader Banerjee at the same time favoured a front without involving the Congress.
The Trinamool Congress supremo sought to rally the regional parties against the NDA even as Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who mooted a non-Congress, non-BJP coalition in national politics, said the alternative being proposed by him would be a “people’s front of India”.
Coming down heavily on the NDA-led Centre, Banerjee said issues like demonetisation and bank frauds have affected people at the grassroot level and that it was time for the BJP to “pack up and go”.
She asserted that all opposition parties should work together to oust the BJP.
Banerjee, who is in Delhi for three days, had an hour-long meeting with Pawar and other NCP leaders at his office in Parliament.
Pawar had earlier in the day denied that a meeting over dinner with opposition parties was scheduled tonight.
“There is no meeting, there is no dinner,” Pawar had said in response to a question whether there will be a dinner meeting with the West Bengal chief minister.
